Layered Lilikoi Cake Recipes

CHOCOLATE LITTLE LAYER CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease three 9-inch cake pans and line with rounds of parchment or waxed paper.
• In a mixer, cream together butter, sugar and shortening until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in eggs one at a time and continue to mix on medium until eggs are well incorporated. Stir in vanilla.
• Sift flour, then add salt, baking soda and baking powder. Sift a second time. With mixer on low, alternately add flour mixture and milk in about 4 additions, then increase speed to medium. Beat until smooth, about 4 to 5 minutes, scraping down sides of bowl.
• Spread 3/4 cup batter in each pan. Bake 6 to 8 minutes, or until cake springs lightly when pressed with a finger. Flip cake out of pan onto paper towels or cake rack while still very warm. Repeat with second set of layers.
• When first layers go into oven, start to make icing. Put sugar and cocoa in a deep, heavy-bottomed saucepan and mix well. Turn heat to medium-high and add butter and milks, bringing to a boil. Boil for about 4 minutes, stirring continually, careful to watch that it does not boil over. Lower heat to simmer, add vanilla and stir occasionally for another 7 to 10 minutes. If using a candy thermometer, cook to the point just before soft ball stage or about 230 degrees.
• Begin icing first layers, still warm, when second batch is in the oven. Flip layers over so that top side faces up. Use about 4 tablespoons of icing per layer. Icing will be thin but will firm up as it cools. Stack layers, then continue icing and stacking as layers are baked.
• When all layers are iced and stacked, glaze top and sides of cake. Contours of layers will be visible through icing. If icing hardens too much while frosting cake, set back on low heat and stir until it is spreadable.

LAYERED LILIKOI CAKE

Steps:

• To make cake:.
• Bake cake according to package directions substituting lilikoi juice for water.
• For chiffon:.
• Beat egg yolks and sugar until lemon-colored; add Lilikoi juice, place in saucepan and cook over low-to-medium heat until thick, about 8 minutes.
• Remove from heat and chill.
• Whip cream and vanilla, then fold into Lilikoi mixture.
• Frost sides of cake; cover top with Lilikoi topping.
• Makes enough to frost one cake.
• If layering an 11-by-13-inch cake, double this recipe.
• For Gel Topping:.
• Mix cornstarch with water to dissolve all lumps.
• Add salt, Lilikoi and lemon juices and egg yolk.
• Cook over low heat until thick, stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat and add butter.
• Spread when slightly cooled but still warm.
• To assemble cooled cake:.
• Thickly frost the cake with all of the Chiffon frosting mixture.
• Glaze the top of the cake with lilikoi gel.
• Refrigerate until ready to serve.

LILIKOI PASSIONFRUIT CURD CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees, and make sure one of your racks is on the middle level.
• Choose your cake pan(s) and butter (and flour) generously.
• Combine your dry ingredients: Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt into a small/medium-sized bowl and set aside.
• Combine your wet ingredients: In a separate medium-sized bowl (or mixer) beat the butter with the whisk or paddle attachment for about three solid minutes.
• You want the butter to be smooth and creamy before you add any of the rest of the ingredients.
• Now add the sugar(s) and beat some more - another three minutes minimum.
• Scrape down the sides of the mixing bowl once or twice during the process so you end up with a nice, even, creamy butter/ sugar blend.
• Add the eggs one at a time: After you add each egg, mix until the egg is fully incorporated and the batter is smooth and creamy - scrape down the sides of the bowl now and then along the way. (If you don't beat well enough at this stage you'll end up with little butter/sugar flecks throughout your batter in the end).
• After the eggs are well incorporated stir in the vanilla extract.
• Combine wet and dry ingredients: Dump the dry ingredients into the mixing bowl and gently fold in the flour.
• You don't want to over mix the batter at this point, so continue to fold the flour in until the last of the flour just barely disappears.
• Get ready to bake: Scoop half of the cake batter into the prepared cake pan.
• It is pretty thick, so you may need to spread it around a bit with the back of a spoon.
• Now take about 1/2 of your curd and cover the batter, staying clear of the sides of the pan if possible.
• Add the rest of the cake batter and smooth out the top until it is level if you need to. Now you are going to finish off the top of the cake with some curd swirls.
• Plop big spoonfuls of the remaining lilikoi curd and plop them on top of the cake (again staying clear of the sides of the pan if possible).
• Drag a butter knife through the curd in a loop-de-loop motion so the cake batter swirls with the curd and you get a marble effect.
• Bake for 50-60 minutes (depending on pan
• shape/size), or until the cake bounces back a bit when you push the top of it with your finger - it will be very moist (see picture), so don't overcook - trust your eyes, nose, and instinct.
• Let cool and serve at room temperature dusted with a bit of powdered sugar (I bet ginger-kissed, loosely whipped cream would also go well with this).